The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-09-13

camp on the Aruwini, has sent adyices to Leo
poldsville that he had received news from
Henry n. Stanley dated July 18th. Stanley
was then ten days march in the interior, and
was still proceeding up tho Aruwini, which he
had found navigable above the rapids.
BEN BUTLER ON THE SURPLUS.
Why Not Relieve Disabled Confederates Out
of the National Treasury,
General b n amin F. Buffers Sreech.
We have to lay in our treas ry b. tic last report
SS2,S29OOO of go SOL, 900 Of 81 yer, aud $751;,
oo',OOO Of currency, max TO al Of So 600 000,
ana Tor MI pIa cal puposes the gold and SI er
III g II as well he back in tine mines andithe treas
NY notes unprintel. he a e o no "a hiy use.
hey o 10 "a u " Consequences. Tie wlo'e of
II might e banned p oda and the u!i.on would
o. there rs valuable rs ever and tie treasury notes
Just as valuable, beca Sc paper enough would be
ie ton which to print more. And yet this is Il ve'y
aarm'l fact. HeTe is all his sum OF morey G.
long ~ to the peope, utterly useless TO the peope
anu that sum is laiger than all the bullioa
Doth silver and gold, ON tie .5,h day of August
III the Bank of England and The Bank of France.
The Bank of England has only SlO326 900 in gold,
and the Bank OF France has in gold and silver 49,
100000, leaving both banks S5S2 100000 of money,
against S5S5 100000 in country. Now then, that
gold in France ana England is the basis of crcu-
latlon, OF which ii is but percentage whereas our
gold the basis of no circulation our silver is the
basis of no circulation. True, against the S2S2 o00-
eco of gold we have SS9OJ0000 of gold certificates
They would be Just rs good for all purposes if that
gold was back in the mre We have S147, 900 600
OF silver certificates and they would be just good
| II That immense amount of silver was made up in
the form of a monument to Grant of the same size
as the marble monument, and it would be much
safer than it is now, for nobody could carry it OIL
Let us see what the effect ofths IS The boarding of
gold and silver the reducing of our circulation, has
ynht int - hNyn IL
while in todays report from London interest there
Is one per cent. To get money for u mess we have
to sell our four per cent coupon bonds of the United
States, payable in 1891. at 1851 and these same
bonds are selling in London at 1l114 So that to get
money for the business of the country we have to
pay three per cent and yet we have double the
money lying without any use whatever in the
treasury locked up.
This has no political significance because this
con lion of things is the result of the legislation of
the republican party on the one side and of the
want of legislation on the part of the democratic
party on the other. Both are to blame.
The question is, low is this money to be got out
OF the treasury! My iiea, Comrades is that it
should be distributed equitaby. How is that?
Make service pension for every man who served
three months in the war so much, and so on, ac-
cording to the desert of the pensoner. In this
| way the money would be distributed and could
| never go wrong. man gets il who earns it. A
| man gets it who owns it. 1t goes to every village
| and every hamlet in the country. And it has to
go through the hands of the butcher and the baker
and the candlestick maker, aud all Others before
ii gets into the bank to be loaned outat any per cent
| 1t is put in circulation. The great ques-
| ton is raised, how can the government
put this into circulation! My comrades let them give
| it to lis to whom it belongs and we will see to 1t
that it is put into circulation. We will become re-
sponsble for that, if for no more But it may be
| said this can't be done by this administration be-
| cause IL is not democratic measure tn that
answer that once before this country had a surplus
| revenue under man by the name of Andrew jack
| son, somewhat of democrat and he distributed it,
as did the state of Maine per capita, many dol
| lars n head. There Is in the treasury al this mo-
ment S600,00O000, just $40 head for every man,
| woman and child In this country Give il to the
soldier according to his SERVICE and you can't say
| that you give it to the man who has not earned it,
| But it may be said that part of this money be-
longs to the south. They have paid the taxes. Yes,
| agree they have, but not much of it, except on
whisky and tobacco, and we have consumed about
| as much of their tobacco and drank as much of
their whisky to pay the taxes as they have. But |
| am looking upon this as a matter of craftsmanship
| by which we can relieve the finances of the coun-
| Try, and want to be just and equitable. Almost
seventeen years ago. said in congress that l
looked forward to the day when we should give re-
lief TO the disabled confederate soldiers. was very
| much criticized at that time for saying il and
whenever was criticised that means abuse. l bore
that with n patient shIug, for "sulfeTance Is the
badge of all my tribe" The pension is given to the
we'll man q matter of reward for his valor in the
| army; the pension was given the disabled
man as matter of mercy for his
| loss. And I am ready here and now
whether it is with obloquy with praise, TO say
that as soon as we have rewarded the men who
fought for the union, then | am content that the
surplus money of the United States shall be taken
for the purpose of administering to the necessities
of the confederate soldiers of the SOUTH who were
not bameable for this war being brought upon us
but are the only sufferers by it. Byt want to say
another thing TO my friends of the north and south
We shall be able to relieve the necessities of
the wounded and manned confedeTates until every
union soldier is rewarded for his yaor ana loyalty
and the quicker every votes for that the quicker
he will bring but this act of magnanimity o The
southern people.
Therefore, / insist that We should demand this
pension. don't mean we, soldiers, but that the
country should demand it as the means Of getting
rid of the surplus, which, bypiling up money in our
treasury makes the rate ofintercst here per cent
when the rate of inie est in England is down TO !
per cent This is the first dav Of September; on the
first Monday Of December congress meets. Within
thirty days this act might be pas ed and the ds.ri
button Of the money could go directly and relieve
the whole Countryside financial, mercantile, man
uacturing and every cIsss Of producer, whether in
tho shop or in the field If we demand it, If the
people require 1t neither party in the face of pres
idcntial election will dare refuse it sixty days.